Colophon
A colophon is the note at the back of a book that records how it was made. This is the same idea for a website: a quiet record of the tools, decisions, and people behind nadiapoe.co.uk.
The site is built the way the paintings are — slowly, with attention to the parts no one sees. Everything here is hand-made rather than assembled from a template, and it is meant to load quickly, stay out of the way, and let the artwork carry the page.
How it is built
The storefront is a static-first site built with Astro, rendered ahead of time and served from Cloudflare Pages so pages arrive almost instantly. The shop, orders, and stock are handled by a self-hosted Medusa commerce engine running on a small Hetzner server in Germany.
Payments are processed securely by Stripe, with prices shown in pounds, euros, US dollars, and Australian dollars depending on where you are visiting from. Order confirmations and replies are sent through Resend.
Craft notes
- Fast and light. Pages are pre-rendered and cached at the edge. There are no heavy frameworks loading in the background.
- No third-party fonts or trackers. Typography uses fonts already on your device, and there are no cookies for advertising. Anonymous, privacy-respecting traffic measurement is handled by Cloudflare.
- Secure by default. A strict content-security policy is generated for every page, and the site is protected by Cloudflare’s edge security.
- Accessible and responsive. The layout is designed to work with keyboards, screen readers, and any screen size.
The full tech stack is catalogued on StackShare.
Mentions
The build was featured in Astro’s What’s New in May 2026 round-up.
Further reading
There is a longer write-up of how the stack fits together — and why it costs less than a coffee a month to run — on dev.to.
Credits
- Artwork and words — Nadia Poe
- Design, development, and webmaster — David Bartalos
Built with, and grateful to
This site stands on a great deal of open-source and independent work. Particular thanks to the teams behind Astro, Medusa, Cloudflare, Hetzner, Stripe, and Resend.
If you would like to know more about how the site was put together, get in touch.